The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-06-18
MONTANA NEWS.

s Eugene Wingler, a Helena barber, il
under arrest for bigamy.
Stevenson & Allen, grocery firm. o
. Billings, are in financial difficulties.
A young man named Brown wa
drowned in Skalkaho creek, Mlssoul;
county, last week.
The residence of Dennis Dunn. neal
Centerville, was destroyed by fire OF
Monday. Loss $2,5OO
A detective agency has lately been or
ganized in Helena, and it now behooves
criminals to he wary of it.
/ w. Calfee, of Gallatin county, has beer
allowed $3.50 by the government on g
claim of $1,000 for losses in 1877 by the
Sioux.
A couple of woodchoppers were held
up and made to disgorge a considerable
sum of money near Butte, last Saturday
night, by FOUNDERS.
Deer Lodge is all agog over the theft of
an express package containing SAT.
Several arrests have been made of parties
suspicioned of the crime.
John Glenn, sheep-herder in the en-
ploy of John Ross of Stanford, Choteau
county, "as killed by lightning last week.
He left family at Fort Benton.
The squirrel bounty business still -four
ishes. Certificates for bounty on these
pests to the number of from 5000 to 15,-
900 are daily arriving at the territorial
treasury.
Thursday afternoon Thos. Hartley, a
miner employed at the Burlington mine
at Butte, fell to the bottom of the shaft,
distance of 22O feet, and was instantly
killed.
At Anaconda Thursday William Ribe,
a switchman employed by the Montana
Union, was caught between the cars and
sustained injuries which will probably
prove fatal.
A severe hail storm passed over Fort
Shaw Monday evening, breaking every
pane of glass in windows exposed to the
storm. Some of the hail stones were as
large as hens eggs.
Last week Yellowstone county sold
$91 500 worth of seven-per- r-cent. twenty
year bonds at a premium of $3,7S5.41, or
4 and 13-10O per cent. This sale is the
best ever made in the territory.
The two-year-old son of John Gibson,
of Helena, was accidentally shot in the
forehead last week by random shot from
shooting gallery, near which he resides.
The ball was nearly spent when it struck
the child and only inflicted a slight
wound.
Engineer Rucks, of the Buffalo mine,
one of the Anaconda properties, in an al
tercat1on with John Connolly, miner,
shot the latter in the muscles of his
shoulder after firing three shots. The
wound, though serious, is not considered
fatal. Rucks was arrested and released
on bail.
The White Sulphur Springs Husband
man says: A change in the road near the
Bulldog ranch, on, the Livingston road,
puts it over very swampy country and is
almost impossible. The people of Park
county should see to this if they expect
to win back from Townsend the transfer
trade it has recently lost.
The Working Woman's Home is new
institution which has lately been incor-
porated in Helena. Object-to assist
working women to secure employment
and to furnish home to those who may
desire to avail themselves of the same,
subject to the rules and regulations pre-
scribed by the board of trustees.
Three men undertook to cross the Bit !
ter Root river, near Missoula, last Satur-
day in skiff. The boat upset and two of
the occupants were drowned, the third one
escaping by seizing hold of rope which
had lately been stretched across the river
for the use of ferry. Dennis Enright
and Ed Hayes were the two drowned.
A company of troops, under command
of Lieut.. c. w. Kennedy, left Fort Mis-
soula on Sunday last for Tobacco Plains,
a point near the British line, where they
are to be stationed during the summer to
prevent the sale Of liquor to British In
dians from the American side, and to pre-
vent outrages against settlers in that vi
entity.
A gang of tramps took possession of the
Northern Pacific boarding car at Mullan
Pass last Sunday, helped themselves to a